1944
What with the deadline for these notes a month in advance, I write as the leaves are turning in New England and just after Dartmouth trimmed Holy Cross 38 to 6. I know the leaves will fall but I'm hoping the Indians won't. We looked great against Boston College in a pre-season game-scrimmage and very impressive against UNH and a weakened Holy Cross. To go out on a limb (as the leaves fall), I suggest that Bob Blackman's boys might well be undefeated by the time you read this, having edged Penn, squeaked by Brown, won a thriller from Harvard and trimmed Yale. (There may be no notes at all next month if all this turns out all wrong.)
My bifocals turned up only a few '44's at the openers and I'm sure there were many, many more: Bill Barrett in Durham for UNH; and for HC in Hanover, JackShearer and Jack Riley.
On other fronts, Monte Basbas, who must be our most solid mayor, is seeking his third term this fall as "chief of state" in Newton, Mass. Knowing his record, he can't be accountable for the Shakespearian language of a local newspaper story which reported: "Basbas did not ignore to mention . .
If you live in Florida and are having trouble with your telephone, call Bob Eshbaugh. In July he was promoted to vice president of engineering for the Florida Telephone Company. Bob joined FTC in 1950 and has served as outside plant engineer, general purchasing agent, equipment engineer and general equipment engineer. Behind his new desk he will be responsible for all engineering and design. Other sources report that Bob still retains his World War 2 Army Air Force skill and flies his own plane, and that the family maintains a hideaway retreat in the North Carolina hills. Home is now in Leesburg, Fla.
Dr. Suds Suddarth has packed his black medicine kit and headed west from Pennsylvania back to a former stamping ground, Missouri. He did his internship in pediatrics there way-back-when, and has now returned to Independence where he has entered private practice. "I'm alone," he writes, "but hoping that I'll soon be busy enough to need an associate - and then be able to find one."
And from one who has deserted the metropolis for the comparative wilds, Donpunbar writes: "I have left Simmons College, in Boston, where I've been an associate professor of psychology since 1953 for an assignment as the same at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick. . The people here, maritimers, tend to have a positive regard for people and a humorous, gentle-tough attitude toward life that I'd almost forgot existed; second, the surroundings include fresh air, still some clean waters and an exhilarating openness of sky and sea "
In the new-venture department, Meryll Frost seems to have given up an automobile franchise for the publishing world. He recently sent out a prospectus for a new magazine to be called "T. M.: This Month in New England" and is a new concept for encouraging people to travel and vacation in New England. Appearing monthly, it will carry complete listings of all leisuretime activities both chronologically and by state.
Bill Warner, secretary-treasurer of Warner & Company (insurance) in South Fargo, N. Dak., was Dartmouth's delegate to the ceremony inaugurating a new president at Jamestown College, Jamestown, N. D., on October 3. And as though one Master's degree wasn't enough, Dick Paul added a second, a Master's in - Education, at American University last June.
Since returning from the June reunion, pulp-paper man Boge Bogart has gotten together with Don Sheridan in Chicago, "... once at the race track where I'm not sure who was a winner and once at Don's 25th wedding anniversary where everybody was. .. ." Boge also spent a couple of days in Middletown, Ohio, and renewed relationships, both personal and professional, with Bill Marion, president of Sorg Paper. Bill, says Boge, has a pound more and a hair less but seems in good shape.
Bill White (William A.) has deserted Newton Square, Pa., for Altemonte Springs, Fla. He writes: "I'm now executive vicepresident of a new subsidiary of Western Union Computer Utilities Corp. It's called Automated Financing, Inc., and deals with a computerized insurance premium financing package for general insurance agents. We have closed our first deal, acquiring 450 Florida agents, and hope to be ready to spread out nationally about the first of the year.... I spent the summer supervising the building of a lovely new home. I haven't settled on a golf club here as yet, and I'm enjoying playing a number of the area courses while my selection process goes on."
A splendid long letter from Greg Rabassa (Professor of Romance Languages at Queens College, N. Y.) reveals that he can now get away from it all on weekends to a newly acquired, second home in the Hamptons. He and his wife spent most of the summer there, part in the garden (where the squirrels did away with his corn and peaches), part at the living-room desk where he finished translations of two or three Latin American men-of-letters, wrote some articles and reviews and the outline of a novel of his own. His wife, Clem, found the atmosphere propitious, too, and moved toward finishing her doctoral dissertation. "We have decided," Greg writes, "to call our new place Villaclara 11, after the place my parents ran on Lyme Road, well-known to a lot of Dartmouth men, and also for our own Clara, age three."
Jim Lang and wife Barbara were at the Hanover Inn in mid-September, en route to an American Association of Railroads conference in Montreal, and after having dropped off daughter number two at Smith. Just down the hall from them was BudSummers, in town with his freshman son, Dave. Jim's daughter, Mary, was back from a round-the-world tour with a college roommate, including more than a month in New Delhi. That's some reversal of Robert Benchley's definition: "There are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."
Should I have made that football prediction at the beginning of this?
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